Seattle is one of the eight cities to launch the United States third attempt at professional women's soccer. The other cities are Portland (run by Timbers), Kansas City, Chicago, DC, New Jersey, Western New York and Boston . The USSF will fund 24 players from the USWNT while the CSA will fund another 16 players from within their pool.

For the fourth time in five matches, there will be a new man in charge of the Mexico National Team.

After two games in charge, which included the thrilling 2-1 victory over Panama and a 2-1 defeat in Costa Rica, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) have decided to part ways Victor Manuel Vucetich, according to a Vucetich himself in a strongly-worded interview with ESPN Deportes.

Frank Sinatra crooned "South of the border...down Mexico way" on a popular 1953 recording.Â He
was referring to a lovely senorita in the song, but ten years earlier the popular Mexican Primera
Division soccer league was born. This colorful league has blossomed to become the 12th ranked
domesic league in the world (accoridng to byÂ Â FIFA rankings).

Frank Sinatra crooned "South of the border...down Mexico way" on a popular 1953 recording.Â He
was referring to a lovely senorita in the song, but ten years earlier the popular Mexican Primera
Division soccer league was born. This colorful league has blossomed to become the 12th ranked
domestic league in the world (according to byÂ Â FIFA rankings).

The group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League begins Tuesday night with 16 teams looking to
advance to the quarterfinal round.Â Â Five MLS teams are competing in the group stage this year
the LA Galaxy, Colorado Rapids, Seattle Sounders, FC Dallas and Toronto FC, while four FMF teams
Pumas UNAM, Santos Laguna, Morelia [.

With Toronto FC winning the Voyageurs Cup yesterday after their victory over struggling
Vancouver Whitecaps FC the CONCACAF Champions League 2011-2012 competition is finally set. While it
has been known for sometime that the Seattle Sounders would face San Fransisco FC of Panama for
some time (season ticket holders currently able to buy seats, public on July 6th), the full slate
of teams let's us play with some math and figure out which MLS side has the most difficult road out
of the Group Stage.

So, the MLS season starts tonight. As I write this, Montreal and Vancouver has gone final, With
Vancouver ending up with three points over the expansion Impact de Montreal (I love typing that).
And normally, I'll watch with a curious eye, but not that much interest.

By Andrew Villegas If Mexico's U-17 World Cup win this week has shown us anything, it's that the
gap between U.S. Soccer and FMF development has widened into a gulf. In that tournament, the U.S.
lost to Uzbekistan in the group stage after beating the Czech Republic, tying New Zealand and ended
taking 4 points [.

With four weeks until the deciding match in the two leg aggregate series against Santos Laguna,
the Seattle Sounders have a dual focus in preseason -- winning that CONCACAF Champions League round
and preparing for a full year of matches. During yesterday's interview on KJR with Gasman and
Elise, Coach Sigi Schmid noted the importance of the CCL match against Santos.

By losing the round 6 match to CF Monterrey Rayados the Seattle Sounders put themselves into
circumstances where they could only face a Group Stage winner. Today's draw has Seattle hosting
Santos Laguna in the two leg aggregate series (away goal rule) of the CONCACAF Champions League
Quarterfinals.

After losing a World Cup qualifying match at Azteca Stadium for the first time since 2001, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) has fired national team coach Jose Manuel de la Torre (aka Chepo).

Mexico lost 2-1 against Honduras Friday night in an important World Cup qualifier. The loss for Mexico, who have already been reeling from a poor qualification process, means that the national team sits in fourth place in the CONCACAF qualification group with only three matches remaining in qualification â€” and one of them is Tuesday against the United States in Columbus in a match that the US will desperately want to win after losing to Costa Rica last night.

Just got word that Marlene Sandoval and Luz Saucedo, the two Mexican national team defenders allocated to Portland Thorns FC, have been removed from the team roster, apparently partially due to a decision by the FMF and also partially due to injury. This actually isn't all that surprising, considering that they've had very minimal presence in camp.